![]() I use burst mode, so I’m getting 5 shots per shot, which helps sometimes, though I almost always use the first shot. I’ve been using the VIRB the last few minutes, and it seems to work well. Otherwise, ones near White House/etc were at slower paces (mid-6’s or so).Īs for how, I just point and shoot. If around the water, then almost all were at full pace (I think one was during a rest interval). I’m pretty excited about what’s coming – tons of really innovative things on the docket, great stuff. With CES 2014 next week, expect to see lots of product announcements starting Monday and continuing into Tuesday. I spent about 20-25 minutes while The Girl finished up her workout (mile repeats, I laugh in her general direction…), getting various product shots done ahead of next week. It was especially nice today being the only person in the vast monument, which spans hundreds of meters in length:Īfter I exited, I made the light jog for a few minutes back to the car, passing by a lone Capital Bikeshare station along the way. I had timed it so that my walking cool-down would be through the Franklin D Roosevelt memorial, which is one of the coolest monuments/memorials in DC, though not often visited. These too were a bit slower than normal (usually I average around 4:45-5:00/mile, but was a bit slower). No worries though, I’ve got non-interval runs over the weekend, and then I’ll be back in business early next week for hard interval runs again.Īs I completed up the 7×800’s, I went into 4x200m sprints. Thus, you lose a bit of top-end aerobic range there. This was mostly a result of the fact that I hadn’t run in a week, and instead substituted skiing. The first 4-5 800’s went fairly well, but I was a bit slow on the last few. I’d complete two full loops of the basin, plus a bit extra. But on this cold winter day at approximately the freezing temperature, the boats had long been stored for the winter. I was coming up on the docks for where paddle boats are normally rented from. In front, only a lone National Park Ranger strolled across:Ĭontinuing around further, I had almost completed my first loop. With the Washington Monument poking out behind him: I’d visit him about 1.5 intervals later.Īs I’d loop around the end of the basin, he loomed before me. I was mid-way through my second 800m repeat when I passed by Martin Luther King, standing alone overlooking the basin and out towards Jefferson. Like everywhere else, there was (almost) nobody there either:įor those curious, my workout called for 7x800m at 2:56/800m, or basically a 5:52/mile pace. I started my first interval slightly ahead of the actual basin itself, so by time I got down to the water 60 or so seconds into it, I was at full speed. Roughly around this point my 15 minute warm-up was completed and I had a 2-minute easy jog/rest break before starting my intervals. And behind it, the Washington Monument shrouded in fog:Īt this point in my run, the Monument was at least fully visible, albeit not from very far away: To my right, the White House Christmas Tree, with workers starting to deconstruct it. ![]() And is still one of my favorite monuments.įrom there I zipped over to the White House. It’s identical to the ANT+ variants, but Bluetooth Smart instead. One such little item is the Adidas Speed_Cell BLE footpod, attached to some other stuff. I was also testing a wide variety of gear. Never have I seen it as desolate as it was this morning at this time (around 9AM). ![]() Given I lived in DC for almost 10 years, thus I’ve run these areas a lot. I continued down the side of the pool, where I found exactly nobody: So I headed over to Lincoln, who was just a few hundred meters away:Īcross from him, it was nice to see that the reflecting pool had been re-filled, which wasn’t the case the last time I was in DC – it was under a bunch of construction then. But, I had a 15+ minute warm-up to get done first. My workout called for 7x800m repeats, which I decided I’d do around the tidal basin itself. Low level fog crept about half-way down the Washington Monument at the start of the run, but it was slowly lifting. Only a couple of other cars along the entire drive, and no peoples around. Upon arriving, it was pretty much deserted outside. ![]() While we could have just run directly from where we are staying (it sits on one of the major DC running paths), we decided to jump in the rental car and head over to the tidal basin since it was only a 10-15 minute drive. We waited for light though before heading out. Just for a few days before I head off to CES on Sunday evening for a crazy-busy packed few days (with a lot of awesomeness in the pipeline).Īfter arriving into DC New Year’s Day, we were up relatively early on Thursday ready to run. ![]()
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